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SYLLABUS FOR E252 BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETRY, CHAPMAN U FALL 2004

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WEEK 8

W. 10/20. Alfred Tennyson. (888 ff) "The Lady of Shalott," "The Lotos-Eaters," "Ulysses." *Note: this session was shortened due to a rain delay-- but I arrived around 8:20 and we covered "Shalott" and "Ulysses." Please continue on schedule for Monday.

WEEK 11

M. 11/08. Robert Frost. (1121 ff) "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Acquainted with the Night," "West- Running Brook, "Design," "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same," "The Gift Outright."

F. 11/12. William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Williams (1167 ff): "This is Just to Say," "Poem," "The Yachts," "A Sort of a Song," from "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower." Pound (1187 ff): "The Seafarer," "In a Station of the Metro," "The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter," and from The Cantos, 1.

WEEK 15

W. 12/08. Dylan Thomas. (1460 ff) "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower," "After the Funeral," "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London," "The Conversation of Prayer," "Fern Hill," "In My Craft or Sullen Art," "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night."